 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 426 lehte
...torches; the whole abbey so illumined that one saw it to greater advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly; and with the happiest chiarooscuro, there wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 492 lehte
...torches ; the whole abbey so illuminated that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof all appearing distinctly and with the happiest chiaro scuro. "The real serious part," continues Walpole, "was the figure of the Duke of Cumberland, heightened by... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1890 - 450 lehte
...torches ; the whole Abbey so illuminated that one saw it to greater advantage than by day, — the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaroscuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1903 - 492 lehte
...torches ; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaroscuro. There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1906 - 372 lehte
...to glow in crimson light, or mysteriously, indistinctly, to become merged in shadow and darkness. " There wanted nothing but incense and little chapels...priests saying Mass for the repose of the defunct," writes Horace Walpole who "as a Rag of quality" walked in the long procession of peers and courtiers,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1906 - 302 lehte
...torches ; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaroscuro. . . . When we came to the chapel of Henry the Seventh, all solemnity and decorum ceased... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1907 - 306 lehte
...torches ; the whole Abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by day ; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest chiaroscuro. . . . When we came to the chapel of Henry the Seventh, all solemnity and decorum ceased... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 lehte
...torches; the whole Abbey so illuminated , that one saw it to greater advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly,...could not complain of its not being Catholic enough. . . . When we came to the chapel of Henry the Seventh, all solemnity and decorum ceased. No order was... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 lehte
...torches; the whole Abbey so illuminated , that one saw it to greater advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly,...could not complain of its not being Catholic enough. . . . When we came to the chapel of Henry the Seventh, all solemnity and decorum ceased. No order was... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 lehte
...advantage than by day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, arni~witJrtbe : happiest chiaro scuro. There wanted nothing but incense,...mass for the repose of the defunct; yet one could not com plain of its not being Catholic enough. . . . When we came to the chapel of Henry the Seventh,... | |
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There wanted nothing but incense, and little chapels here and there, with priests saying mass for the repose of the defunct; yet one could not complain of its not being catholic enough. 
